How Long to Read The Blood in Snowflake Garden

How Long Does it Take to Read The Blood in Snowflake Garden?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read The Blood in Snowflake Garden by D Alan Lewis

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In an alternative universe, Santa's North Pole City is no mere myth.But the reality has little to do with the jolly image promoted to the rest of the world. The North Pole is a grim industrial complex where worker elves and flying reindeer rarely live happy and long lives ... and where Santa Claus is a booze-sodden wreck.Detective Max Sneed is dragged out of retirement when Vlad Volsky, Premier of gun-free North Pole City, is mysteriously shot to death in Snowflake Garden.Prime suspect is Santa himself, suffering alcoholic depression after McCarthy anti-communist witch-hunts in his universe ban him from US airspace.During the six months' long polar night, Max is assisted in his investigation by visiting English journalist, Robert Watson, who struggles to resist the advances of Mrs Claus's pot-induced horniness and is bemused by the complex social interplay between humans and elves. Within this universe echo the events of our own turbulent sixties. Homosexuality is illegal, secretaries perform fellatio on their elderly bosses, and elves are second-class citizens. The winding murder investigation becomes tangled with cold war politics, corporate espionage, bitter worker revolt and a powerful civil rights movement that threatens to destroy the fragile tinsel myth.Lewis brings us a North Pole struggling to retain its image in the midst of labor disputes, volatile human-elf relations, a discredited Santa, and now the murder of Santa's right-hand man. With a little grit and a lot of charm, The Blood in Snowflake Garden is a perfect mix of mystery, mayhem and magic. - Jaden Terrell, Executive Director of the Killer Nashville Crime Literature Conference and author of the Jared McKean mysteriesFans of Terry Pratchett's 'Discworld' will feel at home in Lewis's 'The Blood in Snowflake Garden'. - Poet and author Sam Smith

How long is The Blood in Snowflake Garden?

The Blood in Snowflake Garden by D Alan Lewis is 342 pages long, and a total of 86,184 words.

This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Blood in Snowflake Garden Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read The Blood in Snowflake Garden aloud.

What Reading Level is The Blood in Snowflake Garden?

The Blood in Snowflake Garden is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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